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   The Celestial Library

   A blog by Heavenly_Garden in General

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   Recent Entries

   • The Legendary Artist
   • The Perfection of PC-98.
   • Heavenly Garden
   • A Golden Record

   

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   The Legendary Artist

   "Once again, hello."

   This time I'll talk about an artist that I am pretty sure you've seen one of his artworks at least. If not, then meet Yoshitaka Amano!

    

   

   Yoshitaka Amano (天野 喜孝, Amano Yoshitaka; born March 26, 1952) is a Japanese visual artist, character designer, illustrator, a scenic designer for theatre and film, and a costume designer. He began his career in 1967 at Tatsunoko Production working on anime such as Speed Racer and later became the creator of iconic and influential characters from anime such as Gatchaman, Tekkaman, Honeybee Hutch, and Casshern. In 1982 he went independent and became a freelance artist, finding success as an illustrator for numerous authors, and worked on best-selling novel series, such as The Guin Saga and Vampire Hunter D. He is also known for his commissioned illustrations for the popular video game franchise Final Fantasy.

   In 1987, Amano joined Square (now known as Square Enix) to work on a role-playing video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System: Final Fantasy. Amano produced conceptual design pieces for the game in both traditional and computer designed artwork. At this time, he also worked for another video game company, Kure Software Koubou, producing box cover illustrations as well as some character designs. This work included designs for Kure's First Queen series. Following Final Fantasy VI in 1994, he stepped down as the conceptual, image, and graphic designer of the series. As of 2025, he continues to provide promotional and character artwork for the following games and to design their title logos.

   Amano became the world's highest-earning artist in 1996, earning $40,000,000 (equivalent to $80,000,000 in 2024) that year from sales of silk screens, lithographs and etchings based on his book illustrations. His work began receiving international recognition following the release of Final Fantasy VII in 1997. In 2006, Hironobu Sakaguchi, the former designer and creator of the Final Fantasy series, recruited Amano and composer Nobuo Uematsu to work on video games at Mistwalker.

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   "So what makes this legendary artist, well, special? Let me show you."

   

   

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   Work Thoughts

   A blog by LaEspoir in General

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   • The think tank is empty.
   • Figured out the formula for these.
   • Why did the Internet change?
   • The Suburb Problem in the U.S.
   • My Issue with anime, specifically shounen.

   

   Latest Entry
   

   The think tank is empty.

   Since the think tank is empty I don't actually know what to write. But, writing is so fun. I used to run a meme page back in my first year's of high school. It was overly edgy and had like 1k followers, Most amount of follower's I had ever had in my life. It felt nice to create (Yes I would sometimes create my own memes) after a horrible high school relationship the account got compromised and I had to delete it. Now writing and posting on this blog feels like the same as posting those memes. 

   Bogus as hell I know, think tank only works when I am comically depressed. I struggle sleeping and tend overthink. But ever since I became an adult It has felt so much better. Honestly because I rely on myself and I try my best not to be home. I am actually just really lazy and don't like doing chores. I was born too Late, I woulda been one hell of a cowboy or something. (I'm a Wuss.) 
   It's actually crazy I wrote something without intending to write about it. I will not overshare though! (TAKE WHAT U CAN GET) 
   
   I was also part of a JJBA community during the meme page years, seen some heinous stuff in my life. Those Instagram group chats weren't a joke. The internet is not a good place to share your private life ammiright guys!? 

   Other than hanging out with my friends once a week and talking to my fiancé, this forum is my only socialization. I HATE THE SUBURBS!
   
   Shorter less meaningful work thought rant. I am currently just studying the history of my ethnicity (riveting stuff) 
   Thanks for tuning in!
    

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